New task won't Start Before the Summary Task

[Just Fun]

New task entered as a subtask won't go th the beginning of the project.

It seems to be limited by the start date of the summary task that I enterd
it under.



John Hansen

 

[John]

New task entered as a subtask won't go th the beginning of the project.

It seems to be limited by the start date of the summary task that I enterd
it under.



John Hansen

John
Most likely that is because you entered the Start date for that task
directly (wild guess). When a user manually enters Start or Finish dates
for a task (new or existing), a constraint is set. For a manually
entered Start date that constraint is "start-no-earlier-than" and it
will keep the task from moving to the Project start date, regardless of
when the summary line for that subtask currently starts (it will move
when the subtask does).

When entering new tasks, do NOT enter dates unless you specifically want
the task to start on a particular date. All new tasks will start on the
Project Start Date (assuming calculation is set for automatic - the
default). Task scheduling is why you use Project - the application will
set the dates based on Duration and links.

Hope this helps.
John
Project MVP

 

[Steve House [Project MVP]]

In addition to John's comments ... a subtask cannot begin before the summary
that it's a part of because the start and end of a summary task is
absolutely determined by the start of the earliest starting subtask and the
latest ending subtask. If you had a summary task that starts 01 Feb and
added a new subtask under it that you constrained to start 23 Jan, the start
of the summary will also become 23 Jan Anything else is impossible.

John is 100% correct whn he says you should NOT be entering start and end
dates for task at all except in very special circumstances. Project's job
is to calculate those dates based on the work to be done, the length of time
it will take to do each task, and the date you kick off the project. Let it
do its job for you.

 

[Just Fun]

My default settings for new tasks is set to start at the beginning of the
project. All new tasks are ASAP. Sooo... that's why I asked.
This is the first time I've experience this since upgrading to sp2 so maybe
something in my default settings got changed. I will check all my settings
again and try to get more details of what is going on.